Company context

The company manages the secure movement, custody, retrieval and destruction of information-bearing materials for institutional customers. Its operations combine scheduled collection, sealed transport, controlled facilities, identity and access management, evidence generation, material segregation and downstream recycling. The business is expanding through regional density, additional services and selective acquisitions.
Trust is the core asset. A service can appear complete in billing systems while a container was never collected, custody was interrupted, destruction evidence was unreliable or recovered material left the controlled chain. The company must also balance confidentiality with environmental objectives: material recovery is valuable only after information has been irreversibly destroyed and downstream processors are appropriately governed. The Board seeks an Independent Director capable of protecting that hierarchy.

The Board mandate

The Director will provide independent oversight of chain-of-custody integrity, destruction assurance,



customer-data protection, workforce screening, route controls, evidence systems, recycling counterparties, acquisition integration and leverage. The mandate includes examining whether growth creates operational shortcuts or excessive dependence on manual attestations.
The successful candidate will help management turn customer trust into a scalable control architecture. Procedures must work at remote collection points, during route changes, across temporary staff and after acquisitions—not only inside flagship facilities. The Director will also challenge commercial practices that promise unrealistic retrieval or destruction timelines, underprice risk or accept ambiguous ownership of customer materials.

Strategic and governance responsibilities

Establish end-to-end custody evidence. Define custody events from customer handover through transport, facility receipt, storage, processing, destruction and downst

📌 Independent Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Bengaluru